חָלֶד Choled
Every verse in which this word stands — 1 place, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the places the lexicon carries under this word's own entry, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.
First of the eight creeping things of Vayikra 11:29. Traditionally the weasel; the mole-rat by others — the identification is discussed. The same letters under a different entry are cheled, fleeting duration; that word is not counted here.
וְזֶה לָכֶם הַטָּמֵא בַּשֶּׁרֶץ הַשֹּׁרֵץ עַל־הָאָרֶץ הַחֹלֶד וְהָעַכְבָּר וְהַצָּב לְמִינֵֽהוּ
And these are they which are unclean unto you among the swarming things that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kinds,
Quick answers
What is the Hebrew word for choled?
Choled in Hebrew is חלד, with a gematria of 42 in the standard method.
How many times is the choled mentioned in the Tanakh?
The word stands 1 time in the Tanakh, first at Leviticus 11:29.
A spelling is not a word. The bare letters חלד stand 4 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell a name or another word entirely, and the creature written with a particle attached is a spelling that search never returns. It is here, as itself.
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